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[groupiedrifter]

Alright, let's not be total wallflowers at prom here, if we're going to be stuck together for the foreseeable future, I think it's only right that we (read: I) start getting to know all of my fellow space cadets. If we're ACTUALLY in space and this isn't some humongous simulation. You guys saw how easy it was for this place to manufacture a hyper-realistic simulation earlier, right? Yikes, big yikes.

But if we ARE in space and we're going to be traveling around, that's actually kind of AWESOME.

No offense to anyone who didn't want to actually be here of course, but you're nuts if you're not a LITTLE curious about the vast expanse of outer space. C'mon. OUTER SPACE! How incredible is that? And here I thought me coming face to face with aliens back home was INCREDIBLE, now we've got ACTUAL OUTER SPACE??? Pinch me I'm in a simulation. LOL.

Sorry I'm rambling, my name's Newt. Dr. Newton Geiszler, but but that sounds so much more boring and overcomplicated than 'Newt', so just stick with that. Worked as a xenobiologist on earth (is there multiple earths or what??? a lot of you are crazy unfamiliar with Kaiju, which is wild to me), helped giant robots fight aliens, the usual. Likes are rock music, playing instruments, tattoos, science and tech, dislikes are bossy pushovers who complain about those things.

Speaking of which, my really good pal from home's name is Hermann Gottlieb, and you should call him Herm to make him REALLY feel at home. :)

It's nice to meet you guys on the NEWTwork. ;P

... Actually—

[Suddenly, the text turns into audio, in which a higher voice with some focal fry bleeds in-]

—can I just abruptly switch to an audio function?

[A pause, and then an excitable:]

Holy shit, how awesome is that?! This is amazing; we've made some pretty monumental gains in technology back home, but we're still working on finessing the finer aspects of neuralogically connecting to networks like these for the general population. I'd love to take one of these apart sometime and see what makes them tick. Good to have an idea of what to expect, in case we need modifications or repairs done at any point.

Anyway. Uh. Hey!

... This whole voices-in-your-head thing can't be good for my train of thought, but geronimo, right?

[If anyone listens beyond that, they may catch the accidental thought-to-audio that follows:]

Wha — oh, dammit.

I sure hope this is the last nosebleed, because I would rather not worry about having accidental brain damage from drifting with aliens.

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[groupiedrifter]

I definitely can't take the credit for the Jaeger's initial conception, but I sure did help add a few handy additions to the models that came along later. And then I'd flip around and explain how the aliens they were dealing with worked. Get you a man who can do both, you know?

Oh, but you're talking pretty old-school. Personally, it can depend on the mood, but I can't deny that Pink Floyd is full of musical geniuses. I used to listen to The Wall on repeat when I was in college; one of those that really got you pumped up and ready to fight stupid choices by the government.

[has he ever mentioned he LoVeS MuSiC]

How about you?

[hikae]

How humble~

[ Passion is a good thing, and music can make or break a day ]

Ya got me, I cheated. I mostly know these two big shots because their live tours been a huge thing this year— myself, I used to be into a local rock scene, most bands didn't make it big outside a prefecture, let alone the world. Then life happened, and it's easier to drop by a disco for quick fun, rather than arrange a whole-ass day trip to a live house.

[ Adulthood sucks, some would say. ]

Which makes me wonder, 'bout that old-school thing ya mentioned— wouldn't call these big shots 'old' ya know? So I'm gonna run ahead and ask which year is it for ya? Not every day you get to learn of an imminent alien kaiju invasion— [ It's just as likely that there are really different "Earths", but the idea of it being a possible future is just absurd enough to entertain it. The teasing tone also becomes more prominent as he assures ] Promise I ain't gonna lift yer ideas and pass them as my own.

[groupiedrifter]

Did you say a disco? With a disco ball and all of that?

Dude, that sounds awesome. I've never been to a disco before.

[No, wait, focus. Okay.]

... It's 2025 for me, actually. How about you?

[hikae]

[ Oh

Shit ]

Disco-ball, dancing feathered fans, bodycons, ya name it, it's full package ...the real deal disco of 1988. [ Guess he's not going to see a kaiju apocalypse ] That's quite a difference, sheesh, a whole lifetime of one.

[ A beat ]

That makes me yer senior. [ No matter what their actual current ages ]

[groupiedrifter]

... Wow. I mean, if you manage to live another 25 years... make sure you avoid living in California in 2013, huh? Just so you don't get yourself curbstomped by a giant monster coming out of the ocean.

[He grins.]

I haven't been born just yet, where you're from, so that's completely factual; I'm a 90's kid, just barely! January of 1990.

[Which honestly explains a lot about him, t b h.]

[hikae]

Got it. I ain't the type to leave Japan, yanno? So as an old geezer, I'm just gonna keep out of the coastlines. [ Truth to be told, he's not expecting to live for even a day after he returns, but he'd rather. Not. Think about that now. Not when he's in place that promises the ability to fix all the shit ]

So, Jaeger's huh? That's the name of yer Gundams, right? How big are they?

[ When in doubt, ask questions to make customer talk was the first advice he gave to all the girls working with him. Keep the conversation flow. Distracts self from a minor I FEEL OLD crisis ]

[groupiedrifter]

Well, they're usually somewhere between 260 and 300 feet — about the size of the Statue of Liberty, if you need a visual. They're not capable of flight currently, but they pack a hell of a punch. Personally, I'm a big fan of the GD6 Chain Sword. So badass.

They're not just piloted by one person, though; in order to pilot a Jaeger, you've got to drift with another person. Share the neural load, perform the handshake.

[hikae]

Currently. Ya said currently. That means it's just a temporary state, no?

[ Though flying machines size of that statue? Hell yeah, that's badass ]

I'm totally lost on the neural mumbo-jumbo but I feel vindicated that more than one person is needed to pilot them. I mean, most planes needs two pilots if not more. Makes sense somethin' this size needs a crew.

[groupiedrifter]

I mean, that'd be the dream! Pilots who could fly around the sky, no problem!

... I guess we don't really need Jaegers anymore, though.

Makes me kind of sad that I won't be helping improve them anymore...

[hikae]

[ Don't need them anymore? Huh ]

Now that's a plot twist. So the war's over?

[groupiedrifter]

It sure is. We sent a big cool bomb into the portal they come through and exploded it in their faces.

...

It's more complicated than that, but also not really much more complicated than that.

[hikae]

[ Bomb. Uh. Shudder. ]

Ya makin' it sound easy, but I'm guessin' it's the logistics that were the biggest hurdle.

[groupiedrifter]

Oh, yeah. We had to directly drift with an alien's brain to learn that nothing can travel through the breach without it being encoded with their DNA. So the bomb would have just bounced right back out, which would've been pretty messy. Luckily, we got there just in time to let them know. They rode a monster corpse right on through to deliver it.